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Tag Archives: Wordfire Press
Rose City Comic Con
I’m on the road, heading to Portland. Rose City Comic Con starts tomorrow, and I’ll be selling and signing books along with many friends, including painter Jeff Sturgeon and novelist Larry Correia. Tonight I’ll be in a coffeehouse, selling books … Continue reading
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Tagged Jeff Sturgeon, Larry Correia, Rose City Comic Con, Wordfire Press
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Bookshelf: Running from the Night
Ramón Terrell’s Running from the Night starts with a murder. Jelani, California transplant to Vancouver, stop-motion actor, and martial artist, is out jogging and stumbles across a killing. Not just a killing, as it happens. A vampire feeding. It turns … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Martial Arts, Ramón Terrell, Running from the Night, Vampires, Vancouver, Wordfire Press
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Bookshelf: Spirit Walker
The Serpent Catch series is Jurassic Planet: in a far future, homo sapiens has terra-formed a world and filled it with neanderthals and dinosaurs (as well as sea serpents and dragons). Thousands of years later, our hero is Tull, half-human … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Crown and the Dragon
This is the story of a princess whose people have been subjugated by a foreign power and the outlaw who is her unlikely companion. Elenn is fated to be a paladin, and bears a magical artifact of tremendous destiny, but … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Million Dollar Outlines
I occasionally remind myself of craft principles by going back to the well and reading a book about writing. This week, I read David Farland’s Million Dollar Outlines. If you’re trying to write your first novel (or your nth novel) … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Bloodletting
The Affinities Cycle is an epic fantasy saga in a Farlandesque or Sandersonian vein… 5/5 stars, and bring on the sequels! As in Sanderson’s and Farland’s most famous books, magic here is schematic, tied to an ordering of the world, its … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, Epic Fantasy, Mark Ryan, Peter J. Wacks, Wordfire Press
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Houston, We Have Liftoff
That joke is probably going to get overused this weekend. William Shatner and I and a few thousand of our closest friends will be in Houston this weekend for Space City Comic Con. Come find me with WordFire Press at … Continue reading
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Tagged Houston, Space City Comic Con, William Shatner, Wordfire Press
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Connecticon 2015
I’m heading to Connecticut this week. I’ve spent a surprising amount of time in and around Hartford in the last year with corporate training clients, but this time I’m heading out for Connecticon. Here’s my tentative schedule: Friday 2:40 pm … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Rescue from Planet Pleasure
Felix Gomez is ex-military, a hard-nosed PI who operates on the borderlands between the natural and supernatural worlds, among Anglo and Mexican and Native American traditions, and sometimes between different planets. And he’s a vampire. Felix’s friend Carmen is being … Continue reading
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Tagged Felix Gomez, Mario Acevedo, Rescue from Planet Pleasure, Wordfire Press
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Bookshelf: Darkship Thieves
This is the first Sarah Hoyt I’ve read, though we’ve been in contact through social media for a while. But I met Sarah in person at the WordFire Press booth at Denver Comic Con this year, and bought a copy … Continue reading
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Tagged Baen, Darkship Thieves, Denver Comic Con, Heinlein, Sarah A. Hoyt, Wordfire Press
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